Comments on: AMD's case: Market forces or manipulation?

AMD's charges against Intel could pry open the lid on how Intel commands such high market shares.

[4nchip]

A victory for AMD is a victory for free trade!

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AMD superiority

AMD has provided top performing processors that are more affordable and just as reliable (and often more so than Intel). I have never purchased a PC with an Intel processor and never will given a choice. It seems that like Microsoft, Intel cannot tolerate any competition. Especially when it bests Intel's offerings.

[System Tyrant]

My thoughts.

If Intel does what AMD claims they do then they need to pay one way or the other. That may be business as usuall, but it is tell unethical and probably illegal.

All I can say about AMD is I love them. However, what good is being the best or even as good as the other guy if you can't sell your products.

If I remember correctly Microsoft got in trouble for the same tactics. I don't think is should be lawful for any company to force another company to not sell competitors products by giving them a dicount or anything else.

[paintedover26k]

overdue

go amd! even if amd doesnt win or this takes years... it will show intel to be the cheap ***** they are...

[wazzledoozle]

About time

Hopefully this will work out right, and the government wont take funny money like they did with Microsoft.

[Maelstorm]

Intel Tactics

I'm a small system builder who does alot of consulting work on the side from my primary job working for a telco.

I don't build very many systems, but I use AMD chips exclusively. In the end, all that I have to say is this: The suit between Sun and Microsoft, Apple and Microsoft, the merits of the case was questionable. But, with AMD and Intel, AMD has a very strong case against Intel and I think that they will win, but IANAL.

When AMD came out with the Athlon, Intel was totally p****d off at them because AMD had a superior product. My 4 year old Sony VAIO Laptop uses a AMD Athlon 4 Mobile processor at 1.2GHz and when compared to a coworker who just bought a bran spanking new laptop with a 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron with Centrino technology. My 1.2GHz is faster than his 1.7GHz. Even my 1.4GHz Thunderbird is faster than a 1.7GHz P4 system with RamBus memory. I'm using DDR266.

And to add insult to injury, AMD came out with the Athlon 64 chips which caused a feeding frenzy that continues to this day while Intel's Itainium chip has been on the market for 2 years prior to AMD launch and still hasn't gained acceptance in the marketplace. The primary reason for this is that the Itainium is not a native x86 processor. The x86 mode is emulated, which causes a major performance hit. As a business, why should I have to spend thousands of dollars to buy all new software to take advantage of Intel's new hardware architecture when AMD's 64 bit chips perform far better with my existing software? That's good business sense if you ask me.

Futhermore, you will be hard pressed to find any commercially available PC that uses AMD chips outside of custom jobs or special requests. Fry's Electroncis occationally sells $99.95 PCs that use AMD chips in them, which is one of the rare commercially available prebuilt machines that you can find with AMD parts.

Yes, Intel needs to be knocked down a peg. I think that we are going to see some very interesting things in this case like we did in the Microsoft anti-trust trial. Personally, I will be happy to testify against Intel on behalf of AMD as an expert witness.